Exactly. I don’t know where you think you are going with this, or how it makes Wikipedia non-trivial.
More than that, the content is free. If it goes dark permanently, you just get the version from either Google or any of the other mirrors, stick it on a new server, give it a new name, and bingo, you’ve got the site back. Yeah, it’s work, but it’s not as if Wiki is gone forever. That’s the beauty of free content.
The real importance of the blackout is just that it (1)informs people who don’t go elsewhere on the net, (2) proves that people are willing to work together and try to stop this, and (3)is much more newsworthy and finally got this thing out on the news outside the Internet, where it’s seemed to be mostly overlooked (unsurprisingly). I mean, even Stephen Colbert couldn’t discuss it without having a SOPA supporter on. And that’s the only time I saw it on TV.
Hasn’t the SDMB been offline enough over the past decade to make up for Dark Wednesday?
The mainstream mediapretty much ignored SOPA before the blackout, according to Media Matters.
Relied on porn found in the woods.
The triviality of any particular organization doesn’t much matter in this case. The SDMB is just as trivial as Wikipedia, but if a bill was about to be passed that would fundamentally change posting and modding here to the point of never linking or quoting any copyrighted material, the government could simply have this site shut down if they were made aware of too much of such activity.
It probably would never come to that, but I’m sure the board rules here would change dramatically, and imagine what it would do to the internet at large.